Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-16


r,ore.u-.c ol .lc Richmond Di.pa'chl
NOVEMBER -, 1sSL
-he INVESTIGATING committee appoint
81 ly tlc Io,ri Of sup ryisor4 10 OK.
anime the condition o. the Norfolk
comfy .-m-a.G." performed That work
y.sl.Iulv. $500 found the inmates and
premises iul.y as WIctched as represent
c1. and recommended the dismissal OF
81. persons ia charge OF the institution.
Io.aav the superintendent OF the poor
a-:U.ut,d 1r. Simeon kountrce keeper
a.. ta. alm.hou-e. and viii Immediately
make ali necessary changes 10 improve
the condition az the uuioi iuuatos. The
supervisor. viii be urged to build Il tom
Iorary aim,houso, as the present strlc-
tura is MT habitahle for the winter.
There are thirty inmates.
TLeco.j-lct.rs for the construction OF
tie Atiutic and Danyille railroad hope
to have Oc0 hands at work this week
grading. buiiding bridges, and laying
track between Suffolk and Hicksford.
The officers of the company are pushing
the contractors to make the work as ac-
tive as possible and hive the road COM
pleted to Hickslord by the LIST Of Febru-
airy.
Mr.. George Thompson. n machinist
of Portsmouth. who left here for Cali
fornia several months ago, is said TO have
committed suicide.
Ciyil-Engineer Endicott, Of the navy
yard has been directed to superintend
the building Of the new Simpson dry
dock.
The case Of Detective John T. James,
indicted for killing James Riley, was
called in the Corporation Court yester-
day afternoon and continued to Tuesday
for trial.
Rev. c. y. Donaldson, pastor of
Fourth-Street Baptist church, in Ports
mouth, breaches his farewell sermon
next Sabbath. He resigned in October,
but has no special location in view.
Mr.. y. W. Power, of Portsmouth, has
been appointed engineer Of the new steel
lightship Cape Cherries, now fitting out
in Portsmouth.
The largest sales OF cotton since the
season commenced were made in Nor
folk Yesterday. COG bales.
TIE large tug Thomas A. Balm was in
jured yesterday by collision with Bri-
fish steamer tramp in Hampton Roads.
A general court-martial, with Captain
Gilbert c. Wiltze as president, con-
vened at the navy-yard this morning to
try number of sailors for violating
the regulations.
DR.. q. ID. johnson, of Laurel, Del,
who matches chickens by machinery, has
received a contract from the Hygeia
Hotel for 400 chickens per week for
fourteen weeks, commencing February
1st
MINIS Cooper (colored), for killing
Thomas Deadman, has been refused a
new trial by Judge Brooke, and goes to
the penitentiary for two years.
The wreck Of the British bark Har-
vester at Ocean View has been aban-
doned by the owners and ordered to be
sold.
Bishop Keane went to Old Point to-
day to administer confirmation.
4 wrecking force on the steamer Vic
toria Peed left mere to-day to work on
the sunken schooner Eyerman, Off Cape
Charles.
The warehouse and store of o. B. Ba-
ker, at Pigs Point, Nansemond county,
were totally destroyed by fire last night
with the most of their contents. In
surance small and fire believed to be in
cendiary.
The front OF Walters's five-story peanut
factory, on Atlantic street, fell out to-
day, causing a wreck of the building.
The schooner Films Moore, gotten Of
the beach at Ocean View by wreekers,
was towed into port to-day. q.